Mitt Romney’s Dance with Disgrace

Mitt Romney used to be a man of high moral principles — a gentleman among the coarse, a voice of reason in the political rough. Or so it seemed.

And then he started climbing political ladders and lost his moral compass. He went hypocritical, when he should have gone principled.

His religious-tied facade of courtesy first noticeably faded in 2016, when he shocked with comments critical of then-candidate Donald Trump that went above and beyond policy, into downright personal.

“I am far from the first to conclude that Donald Trump lacks the temperament to be president,” Romney said, in March of 2016, as Politico wrote.

“Dishonesty is Trump’s hallmark,” he went on.

“His is not the temperament of a stable, thoughtful leader,” he added.

“Think of Donald Trump’s personal qualities, the bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third grade theatrics,” he continued.

“There are a number of people who claim that Mr. Trump is a con man, a fake. There is indeed evidence of that,” he said.

“Here’s what I know,” he finished. “Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He’s playing the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat. His domestic policies would lead to recession. His foreign policies would make America and the world less safe. He has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president. And his personal qualities would mean that America could cease to be a shining city on a hill.”

Whew. That’s quite a mouthful, yes?

Not only was Romney outlandishly critical of Trump back in 2016 — he was also wrong. During that same speech, Romney also said this: “A person so untrustworthy and dishonest as Hillary Clinton must not become president. But a Trump nomination enables her victory.”

Not quite.

Here’s the real eye-opener with Romney, though — the sounding of the gong that signals the exiting of his morals: “Mitt Romney accepts Trump’s endorsement in campaign for Senate,” as ABC News wrote in a headline in February, 2018.

If Trump disgusts Romney so much, why take the endorsement?

The answer, of course, is that Romney’s a low-principle guy. A few years ago, facing off against Barack Obama, Romney seemed a face of moral steadfastness, a reassuring presence on the political stage. His policies may not have been overly conservative — some, in fact, were downright Democrat in type. Can you say Romney-care? But he seemed to stand on moral high grounds.

He seemed gracious, almost to a fault.

Now? Now his ground has turned to finely grained sand. His fall from grace has become complete.

In a Washington Post opinion piece, Romney, once again, took shots at Trump.

“Trump’s words and actions have caused dismay around the world,” he wrote.

Maybe. But that’s only half the story. The fuller truth is this: Trump’s words and actions have caused dismay among the globalists and elitists around the world, and in this country. And that includes Romney.

Romney gets lumped into that category of globalists and elitists.

He’s a once-dignified man who’s let politics and personal ambition cloud his compass. In other words, he’s nothing but a politician.

• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley.

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willard was born into, and duped into remaining in, a cult, founded by a con man, and perpetuated by the gullible and stupid. Even a cursory knowledge of mormonism is PROOF that it is NOT what it claims to be. The early doctrine and practice of “blood atonement”, is proof enough of it’s cult status. It DENIES the deity of Jesus Christ. Joseph smith was either a skilled con man, or a psychotic sociopath, prone to delusional hallucinations. Anyone who follows the cult he started is not intellectually or spiritually equipped to be in ANY type of political or leadership position.

Oh, he was 100% a con man. Golden tablets that only he can read? C’mon folks. Not sure what blood atonement is but I’m looking it up now…

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7:05 am January 5, 2019 at 7:05 am

Blood atonement is the mormon practice of the leaders of any local mormon enclave being authorized to KILL anyone in their congregation that they THINK might fall away from the “faith.” The idea being it is better to die than risk the loss of your soul by falling away from the mormon religion. Quite an incentive to keep any doubts about the religion to yourself. They claim the practice is no longer a part of mormonism, but there is no doubt that is was alive and well while joseph smith was alive.

Joseph Smith stole the story of “The Book of Mormon” from an aspiring author at the time. It was a work of fiction, not supposed to be the start of a new religion.

I’ve actually read the Book of Mormon cover to cover. It doesn’t compare to the real Bible. It has geographic descriptions so vague that you can’t tell if it’s supposedly happening in North America or South America. There are 4 specific coins mentioned in the BoM. None of them have ever been found. They’ve sent teams scouring both N and S America looking for these coins but they simply don’t exist.

A copy of EVERY coin mentioned in the Bible has been found.

Insult to injury – The “Pearl of Great Price” story, written in Egyptian. JSmith used his magic angel goggles to translate the indecypherable text into some story about a pearl of great price. How special. Then about 10 years later they found the Rosetta Stone and could actually translate Egyptian hieroglyphs. The text turned out to have nothing to do with pearls or prices.

Mitt:
I used to think highly of you as you did seem like a great businessman and at the time I think you would have made a good president. Mitt, I wish I could say that now. What I see is a flip-flopping, loud mouth who thinks he can make points with the American people by trashing Trump. Like him or not, just as I did not like Obama nor most of his policies. He ran this country into the ground. Worse president I have ever seen and yet you said nothing like this about him. Were you afraid of him like the gutless Congress and Senate. You Mitt I never knew why you or the Democrats or a lot of Republicans would be so vindictive. Regardless of what you say the President supported you in your bid for office. Also look at this Country now compared to the eight years you were quite. Maybe you need to be quite now.

All you Mormon haters really don’t have a clue what you are talking about. There is no such thing as “blood atonement” in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. NO one, no one, has the right or authority to order a persons death. If they leave the church there is NO earthly punishment, NONE. Dipsticks.

What a pathetic egotistic, self-serving, opportunist who shows he is incapable of living up to the mantle of a Senator with actual gravitas, let alone be a TEAM player. My mother was a person of character who always taught me that if you can’t say something nice about someone keep your trap shut. He was not even in office, and he is conspiring to form a Senatorial Conservative bill passing blocking team of oxymoronic Blockheads, just like the going, going, gone, McCain, Flake outfit who held up American progress for 10 minutes of media fame. Another self-proclaimed Conservative who divides where he is unable to conquer, who got shot down in Presidential election like McCain got shot down in Vietnam unable to complete the mission, and lived to make other peoples lives who are capable of completing the mission miserable to justify and live with their own personal failures. When your own team player starts scoring points for the other team you first isolate and bench him, then cut him from the team.

What a great way for a low IQ, poor statesman, and derelict refugee of the East get a start to the new year.
Low IQ, as he didn’t learn a thing from his defeat by Obummer.
Poor statesman as he still hasn’t learned that when you are at the bottom of the hierarchy you need to be a little subservient to those above you until you earn your right to shoot your foot off.
Lastly, he had to find somewhere to go where he had a snowballs chance (Utah because he is Mormon) of winning an election.
Mitt you are a moron, I mean Mormon!!

Sadly Mitt won in Utah because he is Mormon. Too bad. The only reason I voted for him is the R after his name, which lets the Repubs have a better number for control of the Senate. Otherwise he is just an east coast, liberal, sour grapes loser, Trump-hating, establishment RINO. He gives Mormons a bad name, him and Harry Reid both.

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